Beyond Dream's Door

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Audience Member Beyond Dream's Door will show you the unrelenting horror of grad student poetry. A terrifying tale of dreams dragging helpless victims into the shadows of a nightmare. A movie so unrelenting you will ask, "how long is this thing again?" Solid debut effort from the director of Trancers 6 Podcast link: https://anchor.fm/foundonshelfpod/episodes/Beyond-Dreams-Door---1989-e1ets4r Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member A freshman effort from longtime B-horror director Jay Woelfel made while he was a student at Ohio State University and featuring a cast compromised by other students and faculty from the school. Clearly shot on a student budget and frequently clunky and over-written, with special effects that now look terribly crude and outdated. Still, there are clearly some good ideas here and it would be interesting to see what could be done with this screenplay given a real budget and modern technology. The plot centers on a demon that stalks and kills dreamers who have forgotten their dreams; there may be some Lovecraft influence here, though only in diluted measure. The flaws are obvious, but they leave enough to make the film watchable and only a little bit unintentionally funny, mainly due to the earnest performances and really, really bad poetry. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member I really, REALLY wanted to like this movie. I'm a fan of low-on-budget but big-on-heart films and trippy films, so that was two points already in this film's camp. Unfortunately, the film I was PUMPED to watch this. And it severely let me down. The acting is distractingly bad (and not in a so-bad-it's-fun way), the effects are just cheesy (whereas similarly budgeted films have pulled off cheesy yet still endearing) and the concept is too big for its own good. There are so many ideas in the story that it becomes very muddled; so much psychological theory and yet so little substance that very little in the film makes any sense or matters. The story just doesn't really hold together, and it's not engrossing enough to make the viewer ignore the plot holes and sheer stupidity. So the monster/demon came from some random trap door in the psych department's studio... WHY does the psych department have such a facility to begin with? Why was the monster trapped there? If it's such a potentially whole-world-threatening beastie, how did it wind up holed up in nowheresville, USA? In a more endearing, more entertaining film, these flaws would be excusable in that the film would keep one entertained enough not to notice or spend so much time thinking about the film's flaws. Not the case with this film. I had nothing but time to ponder what was so wrong. Pity, there was so much potential. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member Cult classic that deserves a watch Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Beyond Dream's Door is a very unique and original film about a college student who has been repressing his nightmares all his life and suddenly he loses control of that and his nightmares are brought to life in the form of a big giant red monster that literally tears people apart that he knows. The movie suffers from a terribly low budget, problematic special effects, and poor acting, however it is fun to watch the monster kill people and all of the tacky looking blood being shot everywhere. The movie is a mixed bag, but probably worth a watch by any horror enthusiast. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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